Review Assignment

OAQS

For each presentation/report in each of the areas (humanities, social sciences, physical sciences), your own as well as those of your fellow students, write a brief review following the OAQS format:

1. Observation
2. Appreciation
3. Question(s)
4. Suggestions

Topic
Presentation
Review

(Start with your own)

Assignment Schedule

Unit	Week	Date	Topics/Assignment	Notes
Unit 1	Wk 1	1/16/2007	Introduction	Recommended reference texts: Handbook, Dictionaries
Introduction	Wk 2	1/23/2007	Introductory Essay: Personal (family), Social (culture, home country), Professional (economic now/future), Universal (philosophical, goals, definition of success)	QnA-- Interviews Essay: Where do you stand? (feet, stomach, heart, ears, eyes, hands, brain)
	Wk3	1/30/2007	Peer Evaluation	Unit 1 Paper Due
Unit 2:	Wk 4	2/6/2007	Introductory essay due	Language, Literature, Art, Music Story of English; Do You Speak American?
Humanities Focus	Wk 5	2/13/2007	C24, Writing about Literature and the Arts	MLA Format
	Wk 6	2/20/2007	Literary Analysis (357), oral presentations (319), web writing (399)
	Wk 7	2/27/2007	C25, Academic Essays	Unit 2 Paper Due
	Wk 8	3/6/2007	Review; Presentations
	Wk 9	3/13/2007	Midterm
		3/20/2007	Spring Recess
Unit 3	Wk 10	3/27/2007	C26, Writing for the Workplace	APA Format
Social Sciences Focus	Wk 11	4/3/2007	Abstracts/summaries(538,540,550)	Business, Economics America at Work
	Wk 12	4/10/2007	experiment report (341), observation report (319), research paper(423)	Unit 3 Paper Due
Unit 4	Wk 13	4/17/2007	C27,, Writing and Designing in the Web	Cosmos
Physical Sciences	Wk 14	4/24/2007	Field Report (341), research paper (423)	Nature/ Ecology Micrososmos
	Wk 15	5/1/2007	Review; Presentations	Unit 4 Paper Due
Conclusion	Wk 16	5/8/2007	Final